Word: symptom
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...touch, a body to smooth the person's energy out. "The body is a movement of energy; a healer is someone who can sense where the movement of energy is blocked, and go to the source of the problem and cure it, rather than just treating the symptom," Brown says. "All health is really psychosomatic. A change in your attitude can make your problems go away." He says he has cured people of arthritis, and cites examples of people who have used mental energy to cure themselves of cancer...
...further research proves that the amyloid protein is the cause of Alzheimer's rather than just a symptom of the disorder, researchers could begin the search for a drug to curb its production. The markers found by Gusella's team could lead to even more immediate results: isolation of the gene that causes familial Alzheimer's. And this would enable doctors to identify some victims of the disease before their symptoms appear...
Goodwin registers maternal disapproval rather than disgust about the incident. She takes a similar tone when dealing with J.F.K. the philanderer. His compulsive womanizing, says Goodwin, was a symptom of his dread of intimacy and his fear of early death. He suffered from Addison's disease. But previous accounts of Kennedy hanky-panky portray an insensitive Regency buck claiming sexual entitlements...
Both cause and symptom of that New York City increase -- and lately a symbol of racism everywhere -- is the name Howard Beach. That now stands for the ugly pre-Christmas scene in which a gang of eleven youths beat up three black men, one of whom died under a passing car as he tried to escape. After disputed charges of a cover-up, a state-appointed special prosecutor finally took the case before a grand jury last week...
...were weak, she says of the past. They will be weak, she predicts of the future. Her blurred view is a symptom of her pessimism. However, it not only weakens her credibility as a chronicler of our times; it tires her readers...